Python Bytes

Topics covered in this episode:

• A Python/Django Advent calendar
• Dropbase helps you build internal web apps with Python
• Real-world match/case
• Extra, extra, extra, so many extras!
• Extras
• Joke

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Brian #1: A Python/Django Advent calendar

• James Bennett’s take on an Advent Calendar
• “I’m going to try to publish one short blog post each day of Advent 2023, each covering a small but hopefully useful tip or bit of information for Python and/or Django developers”
• First post also discusses using enums
• A couple cool testing posts
  • Don’t mock Python’s HTTPX
    • I didn’t know HTTPX had built in transport mocking, very cool
  • Test your documentation
    • doctest discussion

Michael #2: Dropbase helps you build internal web apps with Python

• Build fullstack web apps for your internal teams.
• Import existing Python scripts
• Quickly layer UIs and granular permissions on top.
• Turn any SQL SELECT into an admin panel with Smart Tables.
• Watch the video for the zen of it.
• Freemium model

Brian #3: Real-world match/case

• Ned Batchelder
• Structural pattern matching example taken from a GitHub bot
• Matching nested dictionaries, pulling out bits of data
• The examples of not just matching but using case [structure] if [test on component] are neat.

Michael #4: Extra, extra, extra, so many extras!

• WAY better DNS with Bunny.net DNS
• Terminal Secrets essay
• Meet the Supporting Developer in Residence (via Pycoders)
• Songs in Python code
  • BohemianRhapsody.py
  • MoneyForNothing.py
• PyCascades 2024
• Project names blocked on PyPI to avoid name collision for downstream free-threaded Python distributions
• An Open Letter to the Python Software Foundation
  • PSF’s official mission
• https://discuss.python.org/t/python-3-12-1-now-available/40603
• https://discuss.python.org/t/python-3-11-7-is-available/40778
• Obfuscated Python winning (via Johannes Lippmann)

Extras

Brian:

• Python for VSCode, Dec 2023 release, rolls out better test discovery to everyone.
• Forcing pip to use virtualenv
• Advent of Code

Joke: Too many open tabs